A MUM who was so intoxicated on a train staff thought they would need a defibrillator to revive her has she admitted being drunk while in charge of her son.

Fellow passengers on the train to London Liverpool Street alerted train staff the 39-year-old woman was unconscious as the train she was on with her son, who is under seven-years-old, and two dogs, neared Colchester North Station.

Colchester Magistrates’ Court heard the boy was running up and down the train aisles unsupervised carrying a packet of paracetamol.

Lucy Miller, prosecuting, said there was no way she could have known what her child or pets were doing.

She said “Staff tried to rouse her after being alerted and a message was sent forward for a defibrillator.

“She was with two dogs and a child who were unsupervised and had a packet of paracetamol in his hand.

“When she was woken up at the station she said she was suffering mental health issues and having marital problems and was going to see her sister.

“She was covered in vomit on the front of her clothing.

“She was totally oblivious to the railway environment she was in and the risks she had put her child in.”

After the incident on November 15 last year, the woman, who lives in Jaywick, was taken to Colchester General Hospital while emergency foster care was arranged for her child and the pets were picked up the dog warden.

She admitted being drunk in charge of a child under the age of seven-years-old at a hearing yesterday.

The woman told the probation service she suffered from anxiety, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder and her partner had told her he was leaving her on the morning she was arrested which is why she got so drunk.

The couple have since reconciled.

The court heard she had drunk cider and half a bottle of vodka before boarding the train and claimed the reason she was so intoxicated was because she rarely consumes alcohol and has not done since.

Probation service staff said she thought the woman had trouble with decision making .

District judge John Woollard sentenced the woman to a 12-month community order which will include 25 days of rehabilitation activity with the probation service. She was also fined £50 and ordered to pay costs of £50, as well as a statutory surcharge of £85.

As she left the dock, she said “I am so sorry about everything.”